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Re:Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts by Uehreka on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:36AM (#39735162)
Nah, this isn’t a matter of people wanting the site to be good but not knowing what to do. They know that they’re making the experience worse, and they don’t care because it makes them slightly more money. We’re well past the point where people are doing “build the thing you’d want to use”.
Re:Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts by wslh on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:43AM (#39735214)
Sorry, don't agree. In business, like in sports, there are forced and unforced errors [1]. Reddit commited many unforced errors. Have you used their ads system? I tried and did since it was created. It seems done by my other cousin younger than the one developing the Reddit app in the garage.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/29k5i7/can_someone_...